HP: Car smashes barricades, rams bike on highway checkpoint

Arvind Kashyap Solan, Nov 14 (UNI) Panic gripped the gateway to Solan district on Saturday evening when a speeding car plowed through a police barricade, rammed into a motorcycle and narrowly missed bystanders before escaping into the hills. The terrifying sequence of events unfolded during a routine highway checking drive by local police on national highway. According to eyewitness accounts and a dramatic video that has since gone viral on social media, the driver of a Maruti Suzuki Ignis spotted the checkpoint ahead and suddenly accelerated instead of pulling over. In a brazen bid to evade police checking, the vehicle…